• Lit@lemmy.world
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    Commerce Secretary is heavily invested in tesla stock.

    dump that stock.

    make the bank collect on Elon tesla stock loan collateral.

    make Elon pay taxes on that stock.

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    Next week they’ll probably try to rename the country as United States of America sponsored by Tesla Motors.

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    People who take this advice are going to be disappointed when Tesla gets outcompeted by every other EV company and it drops to zero. It’s just like the trump shitcoins. Just scamming their base at every turn because they’ve gotten used to lying about everything without consequences.

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      matter of time before Seattle starts disregarding tariffs and dumping teslas into the harbor

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    Encourage the public to buy it while executives unload millions, yeah, wonder why they are recommending that.

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    So much for the old “the government should not pick winners and losers!” line conservatives used to swear by…

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    When the government starts promoting particular products, whether it’s Goya beans or Teslas, there is a line being crossed. This administration is completely topsy-turvy.

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    This is most probably illegal, even in the US. But, oh well, it’s just Wednesday in naziland.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      The Democrats are going to have to wave those little round signs extra hard.

      And then vote for the bill that makes this legal.

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      It’s almost certainly a huge ethics violation. And it’s disgusting. The gop doesn’t even pretend to have integrity anymore.

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      No market manipulation is illegal in the USA for quite some time now.

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        Illegal is only illegal if someone is willing to prosecute it. Who pray tell is going to charge the Secretary of Commerce?

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            Okay, got it. I’m a bit confused though about how that changes my statement around the fact he won’t be charged.

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    “Elon Musk is probably the best person to bet on I have ever met,” said Lutnick. “And I think, we all know that, I mean, gosh, in the same week that he saves astronauts with his rockets that he invented — imagine that. He’s building, he’s building the coolest robots you’ve ever seen. Go online and look up ‘Optimus’ — it’s the coolest thing you’ve ever seen, we’re all gonna be buying robots, they’re gonna cost about $30,000, you’re buying a Tesla robot, and anybody who doesn’t buy a Tesla robot is gonna be silly, no one’s gonna be keying anything. Elon Musk is the best entrepreneur and technologist in America and I’d bet on him — I wish I was allowed, but I’m not allowed to buy any stock!”

    Thank you for this transcript. I doubt I could have made out anything of what Lutnick was saying given how deep into Elon’s asshole his tongue appears to be.

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    Having these guys shill for Tesla is not going to help the stock. It looks desperate. It turns off the core buyers even more.

    There are two groups of Republican at this point. There are quite a small number of ultra rich people. There is an army of mostly not that well off folks. The latter cannot afford Teslas and have seen them as the enemy forever. This is going to highlight that the main GOP principle is supporting rich allies. It shines sunlight on a very dangerous fact.

    Elon is really unpopular right now and “regular” republicans feel like he and DOGE are attacking them. Then they see the Trump administration rallying to support him. The GOP does not care about them but does care about him.

    This could backfire on the GOP and it is not going to sell a lot of cars.

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      Elon is really unpopular right now and “regular” republicans feel like he and DOGE are attacking them.

      Only those who have been personally harmed. The rest of them, and that’s the vast majority, actually believe Elon is cleaning up the government and finding/eliminating corruption. I work with one, he’s convinced everything DOGE has found and cut is corruption/fraud, the kids who are rooting through the Treasury are geniuses capable of finding things that no other administration has been able to (or been willing to?) find, and ultimately the Government is going to run more efficiently and taxes can be lower for regular people when it’s all said and done. They’re too deep in the rabbit hole to see the light.